Hi Martin. What would be the best OCR solution to have?. Regards. Stuart. On 22 Apr 2013, at 16:38, "Martin G. McCormick" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I work on a moderately large uni campus and, trust me, > the library is not going anywhere anytime soon. It's a large > building full of a few computers and public computer labs and, > here it comes, millions of books. The kind that are printed on > paper with ink. > > They are, in fact, always running out of space so will > be soon building a high-tech storage facility to store even more > books. > > The main library will be full of the books that students > are likely to need most often and the annex will have older > volumes that don't circulate as frequently. > > I recently learned some trivia about library building > technology. > > Libraries are harder to build than parking garages > because the collective weight of all the books is more than even > the collective weight of all the vehicles that one would find > in a parking garage. > > They have to sink pilons all the way down to bedrock to > keep the library building from sinking slowly in to the ground. > > OCR may not be as necessary now as it used to be, but it > is still the only reasonable solution in a lot of situations. As > with many technological things, it is cheaper and better than > ever. If I lived alone, I would have the best OCR system I could > reasonably find. > > Martin > > Gordon Smith writes: >> Hello Sarah >> >> Just because you don't use paper at uni, that doesn't mean it's obsolete >> and, to be blunt, I feel that anybody pretending they don't need to look >> at this kind of technology is burying their proverbial heads in the >> proverbial sand. What, for instance, happens if you live alone and if >> you then start receiving private mail on paper? Guess what! You need to >> trust somebody else to read it to you because you have no way of doing so. > > ======================================= > > The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus > and worm-free > > To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web > pages located at > http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at > either of the following websites: > > http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html > > Or: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> > you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > --------------------------------------- > ======================================= The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> ---------------------------------------
